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Priest May Have Been Bomb Target

ST. MICHAELS, MARYLAND — Authorities have decided a bomb that injured an Alabama priest was aimed at him and not at a neighboring federal agent, a newspaper said Sunday.

Rev. Michael Schnatterly, an Episcopal priest in Opelika, Ala., was hurt when a package left in his car exploded Jan. 1. Authorities initially thought the bomb might have been intended for a federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent who lived nearby.

But they have now concluded that Schnatterly, an assistant at Christ Episcopal Church in St. Michaels from 1989 to 1992, was the intended target, The (Easton) Star Democrat reported.